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Manager Tanya Oxtoby is set to depart Northern Ireland<\/p>\n
Tanya Oxtoby looks set to leave her role as Northern Ireland Women’s manager.<\/p>\n
The 43-year-old has emerged as a favourite to be appointed head coach at Women\u2019s Super League 2 side Newcastle United.<\/p>\n
Newcastle have been without a head coach since Becky Langley left in October with the club ninth in the table.<\/p>\n
Oxtoby has been in charge of Northern Ireland since 2023.<\/p>\n
Last month they lost 5-0 to Iceland on aggregate to miss out on promotion to the top tier of the Nations League.<\/p>\n
Originally from Wickham in Western Australia, Oxtoby had signed a four-year contract with the Irish Football Association.<\/p>\n
Before linking up with Northern Ireland she was assistant coach at Chelsea, where she won the League and Cup double two years in a row.<\/p>\n
She managed Bristol City from 2018 to 2021 before joining Chelsea.<\/p>\n
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Northern Ireland manager Tanya Oxtoby addresses her players after their defeat to Iceland<\/p>\n
Oxtoby has also had spells as Scotland, Birmingham City, Perth Glory and Australia Under-20s assistant. She began her managerial career at Nottingham Forest in 2012.<\/p>\n
Newcastle went fully professional in 2023 and finished fifth in their first campaign in the second tier last season.<\/p>\n
This season the top two from WSL 2 will earn automatic promotion to the top flight, while the team that finish third face a Play-Off with the bottom club in the WSL.<\/p>\n
Oxtoby\u2019s playing career began at Australian side Northern Redbacks back in 2002. Moves to Northern NSW Pride, Western Waves and Perth Glory followed before stints in England where the centre-back played for Everton.<\/p>\n
Northern Ireland also lost to Norway in the Euro 2025 qualifying Play-Offs last year.<\/p>\n
For the Irish FA, her departure will see the Association embark on another recruitment drive as they seek to create a more competitive senior side and further promote, foster and develop women\u2019s football across Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manager Tanya Oxtoby is set to depart Northern Ireland Tanya Oxtoby looks set to leave her role as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[8544,8543,1144,8538,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-583774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-graham-luney","9":"tag-national-stadium-at-windsor-park","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115585312898005092","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}